The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality

ISBN-13: 9781118660102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 624 str.

Vasudha Narayanan

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Notes on ContributorsChapter 1: The Persistence, Ubiquity, and Dynamicity of Materiality: Studying Religion and Materiality Comparatively 4Manuel A. VásquezSection I: Religious Bodies 81Chapter 2: The Incarnate Body and Blood in Christianity 82Jessica A. BoonChapter 3: Perspectives on Rabbinic Constructions of Gendered Bodies 112Gwynn KesslerChapter 4: The One and the Many: Ancestors and Sorcerers in Hohodene Worldview 169Robin M. WrightChapter 5: Cognitive Science, Embodiment, and Materiality 202Nathaniel F. BarrettSection II: Practices and Performances 240Chapter 6: From Bells to Bottus: Analyzing the Body and Materiality of Indian Dance in an American University Context 241Harshita Mruthinti Kamath and Joyce Burkhalter FlueckigerChapter 7: Spirit Incorporation in Candomblé 269Paul Christopher JohnsonChapter 8: Spiritual Warfare in Pentecostalism: Metaphors and Materialities 310Simon ColemanChapter 9: Consider the Tourist 341Thomas S. BremerSection III: Spatiality, Mobility, and Relationality 380Chapter 10: Moving, Crossing, and Dwelling: Christianity and Place Pilgrimage 381John EadeChapter 11: Hindu and Sikh Processions in Europe: Material Objects and Ritual Bodies on the Move 415Knut A. JacobsenChapter 12: Geopolitics, Space Sacralization, and Devotional Labor on the U.S.-Mexico Border 441Elaine A. PeñaChapter 13: The Imagination of Matter: Mesoamerican Trees, Cities, and Human Sacrifice 470Davíd CarrascoChapter 14: Material Religion, Materialism, and Non-Human Animals 500Anna L. PetersonSection IV: Sacred Objects and Beings 530Chapter 15: Assembling Inferences in Material Analysis 531David MorganChapter 16: Woven Beliefs: Textiles and Religious Practice in Africa 569Victoria L. RovineChapter 17: Beyond the Symbolism of the Headscarf: The Assemblage of Veiling and the Headscarf as a Thing 591Banu Gökar1ksel and Anna J. SecorChapter 18: Indigenous Sacred Objects after NAGPRA: In and Out of Circulation 617Greg JohnsonChapter 19: Objects of Memory and Authority: Thinking through and beyond the "relic" in Sikh contexts 644Anne MurphySection V: Religion, Food, and Comensality 671Chapter 20: Religion, Agriculture, and Food: Three Case Studies 672A. Whitney SanfordChapter 21: Vaishnava Vegetarianism: Scriptural and Theological Perspectives on the Diet of Devotion 711Steven J. RosenChapter 22: Prasada, Edible Grace 742Andrea PinkneyChapter 23: To Eat and Be Eaten: Mesoamerican Human Sacrifice and Ecological Webs 780Kay A. ReadSection VI: Media and Material Religion 813Chapter 24: Cinema 814S. Brent PlateChapter 25: Religion and Digital Media: Studying Materiality in Digital Religion 843Heidi A Campbell and Louise ConnellyChapter 26: Aural Media 873Rosalind I. J. HackettSection VII: Economies and Governmentalities of Religion 910Chapter 27: Colonialism, Orientalism and the Body 911Sylvester A. JohnsonChapter 28: Dharma[stra: Materiality in and of the Hindu Legal Code 949Patrick OlivelleChapter 29: Religion and Ethnicity as Located and Localized 978Terje ØstebøChapter 30: Never Again: Religion, Commodities, and the State 1020Kevin Lewis O'NeillIndex

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Vasudha Narayanan is Distinguished Professor of Religion at the University of Florida and a past President of the American Academy of Religion. She is an associate editor of the six-volume Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Her publications include The Vernacular Veda: Revelation, Recitation, and Ritual (1994), The Life of Hinduism (co-edited with John Stratton Hawley, 2007), and Hinduism (2009). Her research has been supported by the Centre for Khmer Studies; the American Council of Learned Societies; National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Institute of Indian Studies/ Smithsonian, and the Social Science Research Council.